TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS
Hard News Is Here!
Pay The Cost Of Sounds Murder Closure, Shipley Urges Police
Second Day Of Striking At The Press
Woolworths Withdraws Soy, Mr Lee Defends Sauce
Lindsay Perigo: And Then A Hero Comes Along
Blues Giant Falls
Do Something About Inappropriate Appointment, Goff Told
Why We’re Paying More For Our Dairy Here
Dayna Berghan: Tension On Wellington’s streets
Jobs Being Found For IT Qualified Immigrants
Scoop World: Executions By Stealth In Japan
Katya Rivas: God’s Favourite Creature

TOP SCOOPS

Hard News Is Here!

- GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... ideas are a dangerous commodity. Quite how dangerous was demonstrated this week when a few laboratory ideas escaped into the wild and caused widespread civil panic. See... HARD NEWS 22/06/01 - Wild Ideas [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0106/S00120.htm

Pay The Cost Of Sounds Murder Closure, Shipley Urges Police

- Opposition Leader Jenny Shipley today expressed shock over reports that Police 'cannot afford' to recover two objects which they believe have a 'high probability' of being the bodies of murdered Blenheim teenagers Ben Smart and Olivia Hope. See... Police Must Assist Hope And Smart Families [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0106/S00343.htm

Second Day Of Striking At The Press

- Day staff at The Press in Christchurch have walked out for the second day in a row. See... Press Strikes Again [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0106/S00208.htm

Woolworths Withdraws Soy, Mr Lee Defends Sauce

- Woolworths (NZ) Ltd has immediately and voluntarily withdrawn from sale in its Woolworths, Big Fresh and Price Chopper supermarkets all products mentioned in the British Food Standards Agency warnings. See... Woolworths Withdraws Products [1] and All Lee Kum Kee Products Are Safe [2] MORE: - Ministry Of Health - Avoid Soy Sauce [3] - Sue Kedgley - Consumers Need Soy Sauce Answers Quickly [4]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0106/S00206.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0106/S00184.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/GE0106/S00048.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0106/S00334.htm

Lindsay Perigo: And Then A Hero Comes Along

- Seeking & finding kindred spirits - in the flesh, in literature, in movies, in music, in science, in industry, in any area of rational endeavour - while living up to one's own standards in pursuit of one's own goals, brings in its wake a joy that will remain standing even if it takes a pounding from the "drooling beast" & goes wobbly at the knees occasionally. See... Lindsay Perigo: Carpe Diem! [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0106/S00118.htm

Blues Giant Falls

- Archetypal bluesman John Lee Hooker, whose primal groove inspired countless blues and rock musicians, has died, his age variously reported as being between 80 and 83. He died of natural causes, surrounded by his family in his Los Angeles home. Hooker’s roughhouse stompers such as ‘Boogie Chillen’ and ‘Boom Boom’ define the genre. The elder statesman of the blues was still riffing and moaning on stage as recently as the weekend. One of 20th century culture’s mightiest pillars has fallen.

Do Something About Inappropriate Appointment, Goff Told

- National's Corrections spokesperson Brian Neeson has accused Justice Minister Phil Goff of rank hypocrisy over the appointment of former Mongrel Mob frontman Harry Tam to a senior position in a Government Department. See... Goff's Rank Hypocrisy On Mongrel Mob Appointment [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0106/S00336.htm

Why We’re Paying More For Our Dairy Here

- Green Party Agriculture Spokesperson Ian Ewen-Street MP today said globalisation was one of the main reasons why New Zealanders were facing up to a 22 per cent price hike for domestically produced dairy products. See... Domestic Dairy Price Hikes Globalisation's Fault [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0106/S00338.htm

Dayna Berghan: Tension On Wellington’s streets

- There has been a nervous tension in Wellington recently. It is election year for New Zealand's city Mayors. There has also been a recent emphasis on city safety issues due to eleven highly publicised rapes in the central city of Wellington over the last month. See... Dayna Berghan: Legal Technicalities [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/ED0106/S00019.htm

Jobs Being Found For IT Qualified Immigrants

- More than 120 Information Technology professionals have registered with the “newkiwis” scheme in its first seven weeks of operation. The initiative was set up by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce to assist skilled migrants into productive employment. See... IT Skills Prominent Among Migrants Seeking Work [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0106/S00199.htm

Scoop World: Executions By Stealth In Japan

- Amnesty International is concerned that the Japanese Government will carry out executions on or around 29 June 2001 when the parliament goes into recess, or before the Upper House elections scheduled for 29 July. See... Japan: Executions - Continuing The Secret Practice [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0106/S00093.htm

Katya Rivas: God’s Favourite Creature

- Man should consider that, while I make him practice annoying exercises, I have provided for him. I do not leave him alone because at this moment he needs Me the most. I do not abandon My favorite creature. See... Katya Rivas: No, I Do Not Sleep [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0106/S00119.htm

Gordon Campbell: On The Law Commission Plan To Scrap Jury Trials

Chances are, scrapping the system of trial by jury is not the top priority for most New Zealanders. Not many of us woke up this morning and felt dead keen on dumping our centuries-old right to be tried by a jury of our peers, while yearning to adopt the French system of justice by a judge and a couple of court-appointed experts.

The French are admired for many things, but I haven’t heard many people acclaim their legal system as being so vastly superior to English law that we should quickly scrap one of the bulwarks of our legal system, in order to be more like the French... More>>